Improvement in mowing-machines



J'. B. TINKER. MoWING-MAGHINE.

Patented Feb. 29,1876.

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UNITED STATES PATENT FFIOEn JOHN E. TINKER, OF PLYMOUTH, AssieNOE OF ONE-HALF His EIGHT TO HENRY J. PETTIEONE, OF BUFFALO, NEW YORK.

IMPROVEMENT IN MOWING-MACHiNES. Y

Specification forming pari; of Letters Patent No. 174.098, dated February 29, 1876; application filed June 7, 1875.

To all whom it mp1/ concern Be it known that I, JOHN B. TINKER, of Plymouth. in the county of Ghenango and State of New York, have invented a new and y useful Improvement in Center-Draft Mowing- Y Machines, which improvement is fully set forth in the following specication, reference being had to the accompanying drawings This invention relates to certain improvements in mowing machines, for which Letters Patent were granted to me, No. 51,364, dated December 5, 1865; and it consists of a jointed iingerbar shoe, having the joint arranged in the direction of its length, or nearly so, so that the end of the main brace will pass through thel joint opening and be securely held in position by a side brace, which also serves as a nut that cannot get loose or out of place. i

The object of the invention is to provide a simple and efficient means for firmly holding the finger-har and leaving it so it can be easily lifted up from the ground while passing over a stone or other obstruction, vand so that it will coliform readily to the inequalities of the ground over which it passes.

In said drawings, Figure 1 is a plan or top View of the machine, and Fig. 2 a side eleva tion. .o

Arepresents the main braces of the machine, ot' which there are two. They are jointed to the machine at a a. B B are the side braces, which are also jointed to the machine at b b. The lower ends of the braces A pass into the shoes C U', as shown by the` dotted lines D, and are screwed into the nuts e c, forming parts of the braces B B, after lwhich they are secured at b b', as above mentioned, thereby forming a permanent joint,

which is simple, easily made, and not liable to get out of order.` E represents the fingerbar, and F the carrying-rollers. They are coustrncted in the usual manner, but as these and some other parts of the machinery are substantially as shown in my aforesaid patent, 

